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Hormone
Testing - Personal Saliva Test
Kits for home use.
Accurate
hormone testing kits for home use - Price includes all supplies, clear instruction
booklet, pre-paid shipping tube and laboratory fees. Results with detailed explanations
are mailed direct to you within 7-10 days.
Test for levels of - Progesterone,
Estradiol, Estriol, DHEA, Cortisol, Androstenedione and Testosterone. PRICE
Two
Hormone Test Kit - $80.50 - PURCHASE
Five Hormone
Test Kit - $185.00
- PURCHASE
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NOTE:
For the states of New York and California only - Present regulations require a
prescription or script from a medical professional for hormone testing.
Before
taking any hormone supplements, you should know your correct hormone levels. Although
estrogen dominance and low progesterone levels are clearly evident in symptoms
like PMS, weight gain, migraines, fibroids, depression and the like, a saliva
test will confirm and pinpoint your personal condition. The Personal Saliva Hormone
Test Kit can profile your baseline level(s) before starting a hormone supplementation
program and help you monitor its progress. Our
convenient saliva test kits (found by the World Health Organization to be more
precise and reliable than blood tests) can be used to accurately test levels of
Progesterone, Estradiol, Estriol, DHEA, Cortisol, Androstenedione and Testosterone.
The test kit Includes: Easy-to-use home profile kit information booklet, and a
prepaid mailing tube for saliva sample. Results are mailed directly to you or
to your medical practitioner with full explanation of results and their meaning.
Who
conducts the saliva profile?
Test assays are under the direction of Dr.
David Zava, Ph.D. a leading biochemist and medical researcher in the fields of
breast cancer, hormones and saliva testing. Dr. Zava has been instrumental in
developing state-of-the-art saliva hormone testing procedures. The Healthy Hormones
Saliva test method is the accurate testing method available as it is most representative
in measuring the hormones circulating in the body that are available to the tissues
they act on.
Why
test saliva instead of blood?
Dr. Zava explains: "Because steroid hormones
(estrogens and progesterone among them) play such a vital role in maintenance
of health, knowledge of an imbalance in any one or more hormones can help illuminate
the cause of health problems and provide a rational basis for correcting the imbalance
through diet, exercise, or hormone supplementation." Dr Zava's clinical work and
experience shows that levels of steroid hormones in blood and saliva are not the
same. "When various glands manufacture and release hormones into the bloodstream
they are bound to carrier proteins. Only a small fraction (1-5%) of a given amount
of steroid hormone breaks loose from the carrier protein in the bloodstream and
is free to enter target tissues. This free or unbound hormone is what we want
to measure, since it is active or bioavailable to the target tissues such as the
breast, uterus, brain, and skin. Many studies in the scientific literature have
shown that there is a strong correlation between the levels of hormones in saliva
and the bioavailable (free) levels of steroids in the bloodstream. The amount
of steroid hormone that enters the salivary ducts and then saliva, is representative
of the fraction of steroids in the bloodstream that are bioavailable to other
tissues in the body."
Often
blood tests provide falsely low levels of a hormone in question resulting in high
dosage prescription of synthetic HRT drugs that may lead to more severe health
problems. Dr. Zava points out that, "Saliva is not only more accurate and reliable,
it is easy, can be done anywhere, any time and at a much lower cost. Serum hormone
blood testing is stressful, which can alter the results.. Blood tests are costly,
require a doctor's office visit and are often obtained at non-representational
bio-clock times." Dr. Zava reports: "Hormones in saliva are exceptionally stable,
allowing wide latitude in collection and shipment. Samples can be stored at room
temperature for at least a week without loss of activity, so samples can be shipped
to the testing facility by regular mail. Blood, on the other hand, must be kept
cool on ice packs, increasing costs for shipping as well as the likelihood of
error due to improper handling....saliva hormone testing allows you to take more
control over your own health helping you to gain insight into health problems
before you see your doctor".
Our
Saliva Test kit is easy to use. The test kit includes the supplies and information
you need to collect your saliva sample in the privacy of your home. You select
which hormones you wish to be profiled, then simply place the sample into the
enclosed pre-paid mailer. The results are mailed back to you within 7-10 working
days. Your profile results are presented numerically and also show the normal
levels of the hormones you chose to have profiled. If needed, fuller explanation
and significance of your test profile can be answered, free of cost, by calling
the laboratory directly as outlined in the response forms.
Some
Information on Hormone Balance
IN WOMEN - the important factor is the
ratio between progesterone (P) and estradiol (E2) when measured by saliva testing.
A healthy P/E2 ratio in women is 200 to 300:1
IN
MEN - unopposed estradiol can be lethal. Both testosterone and progesterone are
estradiol antagonists and should be measured along with estradiol. Typically a
P/E2 ratio of 200 to 300:1 prevents the various problems caused by unopposed estradiol,
which include cancer.
